Catering are of various types. A cafeteria catering style involves a guest choosing the dishes he or she wants and the attendant places this on the plate. This style takes time and the line of guests is slow to move. In buffet style catering, all dishes from main entrees, side dishes and desserts are left on the table and guests are free to get anything they want. The family style of food catering involves placing dishes on large plates on every table and just refilled if necessary. Guests seated at each table will pass these dish plated dishes among themselves.
In a catering service, it is important that the amount or proportion of food be closely calculated by the caterer with the number of guests. A slight surplus may be fine with the client but definitely not a food deficit during the party. Of all the three styles or types of catering services, it is the buffet style where food servings are uncontrollable and there are absolute chances of overeating and wastes so the caterer would be smart to prepare an additional 20% to the already estimated amount of food to be consumed by the expected guests.
These types of catering already mentioned are commonly used in social gatherings such as birthdays, weddings and other similar occasions. However there are also other types of catering that we commonly see but have not really considered as a catering type. In business events, concerts and festivals, mobile catering is a staple. Foods are served from a cart or a vehicle which are designed specifically for that particular function. If the foods served from vehicles and carts are paid for by the event, such service providers are called caterers but if each individual pays for his or her own food, the caterers become vendors.
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